SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Police Brutality, Class Consciousness, White Privilege
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Group whose inherited physical characterisics disinguish it from other groups. No- variaion in biological atributes are a range, not disinct categories htps://www. youtube. com/watch?v=v9ymckp5myl&feature=youtu. be. No one agrees on how many races there are. People tend to see their own race as superior. All races have geniuses, arists, creaives, and idiots. While race is diicult to deine biologically- the idea of race coninues. People singled out for unequal treatment and regard themselves as objects of collecive discriminaion. Has nothing to do with number of people o. People can be prejudice and not commit an act of discriminaion and vice versa. An act of unfair treatment directed towards an individual or group. Oten learn to be racist ater joining group that is racist o o o. Joining a hate group, paricipaing in hate acivity, brings sense of meaning to white feeling discontented. Contact theory-- regular interacion with other races of similar status decreases prejudice.
